Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 483
Question for Bill and any other players from pre-solved backgammon days...
I read something recently, and have read it before on this site, where Bill and the guys would roll out a situation they didn't understand by hand. I thought I would try this for a bit of fun, but I immediately ran into the issue of not knowing the best move again, a little further down the line.
How did you take this into account when you were doing your roll-outs, that you may have made a sub-optimum move that would itself require additional work to determine whether it was good? I gave up the exercise pretty quickly after I realised what a rabbit hole I was going down...
Do you prefer the world now, with an immediate answer to 4 decimal places? I can imagine the debates were pretty intense. All my "daring and innovative" plays tend to get labelled "distracted" by XG, I think the arguments must have got quite hairy.